The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury, a Carter-organized exhibition, illuminates Nevelson’s multidimensional mastery of form and dialogue with postwar American culture and features over 50 defining artworks by Nevelson on view together for the first time.
2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Richard Avedon, renowned fashion and portrait photographer. As part of a national celebration, the Carter is showcasing 13 works from the acclaimed series In the American West, which the Museum commissioned in 1979 and premiered in 1985.
Drawn exclusively from the Carter’s Fred and Jo Mazzulla Collection, this exhibition showcases 19th-century photographs about the history of Colorado that document settlement and the promotion of the area as an outdoor playground, and the growth of the mining industry.
Trespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie features more than 20 new works, including a new large-scale silhouette painting; watercolor portraits of plants collected during his travels across the state of Texas; and trompe l’oeil clay and bronze sculptures of wildflowers.
As part of the Carter's outdoor sculpture program, Elizabeth Turk’s The Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction comprises vertical sound sculptures of bird species that are endangered or extinct. Each work is a sculptural visualization of the call of a bird that has reached, or surpassed, a tipping point.
This site-specific commission from sculptor Leonardo Drew will explore the interconnectedness of sculptural pieces that Drew calls “planets” with hundreds of smaller objects in the gallery.
Darryl Lauster’s Testament, a bronze obelisk, asks the viewer to be a critical reader of information and to look at the function of text in different contexts. Combining pop culture references with quotes from U.S. foundational documents, Testament questions what we know about our nation’s history and promises.
The Carter houses one of the great collections of American art, from historical landscapes captured on canvas to city streets seen through the lens of a camera. We’re regularly changing out these works, so each time you visit, you know you’ll encounter something you haven’t seen before.
